Hot acidic Late Permian seas stifle life in record time

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 389-400

  Georgiev, Svetoslav ^a,b   Stein, Holly J ^a,b   Hannah, Judith L ^a,b   Bingen, Bernard ^a   Weiss, Hermann M ^c   Piasecki, Stefan ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Greenland Norway; Permo Triassic extinction; Re Os geochronology; Shale

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BLACK SHALES; GREENLAND; GREENLAND-NORWAY; LATE PERMIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; METEORITE IMPACT; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PERMIAN; PERMO-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PERMO-TRIASSIC EXTINCTION; RE-OS GEOCHRONOLOGY; RECORD TIME; TIME RECORDS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; METEOR IMPACTS; SEAWATER; SHALE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

OSMIUM;

ACIDITY; BLACK SHALE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GEOCHRONOLOGY; METEORITE; PERMIAN; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIASSIC; VOLCANISM;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; NORWAY; NORWEGIAN SEA; NORWEGIAN SHELF [NORWEGIAN SEA];

EID: 80053379188     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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